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Originally Posted by mdp
It's not just colour: chiefly also framerate; reflectivity, low lag and decent refresh, colour, and improved power efficiency open or improve the possibility of use-anywhere displays to access information effectively (mobile OS, "desktop [more complete]" OS) anytime. Beyond sequential book reading (for that EPD is already happily fulfilling), the matter here is, for many of us, improving mobility on standard nowadays' "Memex-es" (say, your laptop), which are hardly (most probably not) optimal in visual quality and battery efficiency.
Just pointing it out because just mentioning colour seems to skew the solution a bit. Of course, any subset of the solution/s is then usable.
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Thing is, I'm happy with my e-Ink readers. And my tablet is a cheap Fire ($35 on sale) which I hardly use but works when I need it. I've never paid more than $75 for an eReader (and that was my first Nook Simple Touch) so $400 or $500 for a reflective color tablet has no appeal to me. Battery life is good on my eReaders and (as you mention) for "sequential book reading" they work well. And that's what I use them for. I realize everyone has different uses for their devices and that's fine also. I just wonder how many of those who use eBook readers are looking for color screens, even though (as you say) ClearINK provides more than just color screens.